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Taiwan National Identity Card and Passport captured on one session, screened against FSC and AMLD watchlists — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Taiwan.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Taiwanese identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-ID attacks targeting the rapidly expanding fintech and crypto sectors supervised by the FSC, forgery of the National Identity Card during the ongoing chip-upgrade migration, and cross-strait account takeover operations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA) — last amended 2021
  • Terrorism Financing Prevention Act (TFPA) 2021
  • Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2022
  • Financial Holding Company Act (FHCA)
  • Banking Act (銀行法) — FSC implementing regulations on CDD
  • APG (Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering) — mutual evaluation framework
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Taiwan.

These are the supervisors a Taiwan verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • FSC

    Financial Supervisory Commission — Taiwan's integrated financial supervisor. Oversees banks, securities firms, futures dealers, insurance companies, and payment institutions. Sets KYC/AML requirements for all regulated entities.

  • AMLD

    Anti-Money Laundering Division of the Ministry of Justice — Taiwan's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Administers the Money Laundering Control Act (MLCA) and Terrorism Financing Prevention Act (TFPA). Maintains the national AML/CFT sanction list.

  • MOI

    Ministry of the Interior — issues the National Identity Card and governs household registration data under the Household Registration Act. Enforces the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) for identity data processing.

  • CBC

    Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) — issues monetary policy guidance and supervises foreign exchange operations. Cooperates with FSC on payment-system oversight and AML compliance for financial institutions.

  • SFB

    Securities and Futures Bureau under the FSC — supervises securities exchanges, futures markets, and asset-management firms. Issues KYC/AML rules binding on securities dealers under the Securities and Exchange Act.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Taiwan database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • National Identity Card (國民身分證), Taiwan Passport (NFC chip read on e-Passport), Alien Resident Certificate (ARC), Alien Permanent Resident Certificate (APRC), and Driver's Licence.
  • Returns: full name, 10-character ID number, date of birth, document number, expiry, MRZ.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • National Identity Card (國民身分證)
  • Taiwan Passport — NFC chip read on e-Passport
  • Alien Resident Certificate (ARC)
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Taiwan watchlists:

  • Anti-Money Laundering Division (AMLD), Ministry of Justice — Taiwan's national AML/CFT sanction list under the Money Laundering Control Act.
  • Financial Supervisory Commission — Securities and Futures Bureau — FSC enforcement targets in the capital-markets sector.
  • Financial Supervisory Commission (Insurance Bureau) — FSC regulatory warnings and sanctions for insurance-sector entities.
  • National Assembly of Taiwan (Legislative Yuan) — PEP Level 1 register for legislators and senior government officials.
  • Taipei City Government — PEP Level 4 municipal officials and city-government designees.
  • Tainan City Council — PEP Level 4 local government officials.
  • 富邦金控 Fubon Financial — State-Invested Enterprise (SIE) register for state-connected financial institutions.
  • FATF — Financial Action Task Force global designations and high-risk jurisdictions.
  • UN Security Council — Consolidated Sanctions List.
  • OFAC SDN — U.S. Specially Designated Nationals list.
  • Interpol — Red Notices for internationally wanted persons.
  • APG — Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering regional designations.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure.

  • There is no public government database validation API for Taiwan currently exposed as a standalone Didit service — the Ministry of the Interior Household Registration database does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
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Stage 04Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure

Validate inputs against global identity infrastructure — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Taiwan document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Taiwan.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Taiwan.

Infrastructure for identity and fraud.

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